Playing Making Recording Ver. 2
The purpose of this class is to bring musicians together for music making and album recording, tentatively set for some time October 2010. (More details to come). This will be the second time a course of this nature has happened. It first commenced in June 12th and June 13th 2010 at Basekamp in Philadelphia. To listen to music from the June 12th and June 13th gathering please go to http://making.bandcamp.com.
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One full weekend, 2 days and 2 nights (8am-12am) will be dedicated to music making and recording with a participating group of musicians. The course is open to all musicians currently at all levels of proficiency.
This line from Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War keeps resonating in my mind:
3. Each body is affected by its form-of-life as if by a clinamen, a penchant, a leaning, an attraction, a taste. What a body leans toward also leans toward it. This goes for each and every situation. All inclinations are reciprocal.
Here’s a beautiful paragraph regarding the clinamen from “Soul on Strike”, the preface by Jason E. Smith in Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy.
a reading group for the strange and contradictory. possibilities include but are never limited to: alfred jarry, antonin artaud, daniel paul schreber, members of collège de 'pataphysique,' and radio alice.
This class would explore the substance and structure of the WikiLeaks site, and its implications behind mainstream op-ed characterizations. We could begin with the case study of the "Collateral Murder" video release for the first class, and read some background biographical information about the site's founder. Later sessions could investigate different methods of analyzing intelligence reports and data, using traditional and alternative methodologies.
Potentially, we could include a session or a seperate series of classes on different data analysis software used to catalog such documents as those contained on the wikileaks database.
The Urban Foraging Group would like to screen The Gleaners and I on either Saturday, August 21 at 6:30pm or Thursday, August 26 at 8:00/8:30pm. All who are interested in attending, please indicate (in the comments section) which date works for you. (Ava Chin can join us on Thursday evening so please consider that date. For newcomers, we’d love to have you meet her in person.)
If you’re interested in joining us, please sign up on the class page by clicking on “+I’m interested”.
The following is a description of the film:
The Gleaners and I (video)
From Wikipedia:
I wanted to offer some food for thought: since we are reading some very contemporary texts about exile as resistance, I would suggest exploring the very ancient Christian Monastic tradition, especially the theology of Hesychasm as it has developed in the Eastern churches.
Here are some excerpts in which Fr. George Florovsky, former prof. of Eastern Church History at Harvard, describes the theory and practice of monasticism...
“Let’s not throw away anything”
The participants of this workshop will make sculptures with seasonable vegetables, pulses and other edible things.
Afterwards we will dismantle the sculptures and cook them into a delicious dinner.
10 participants maximum!